Li-Ming

Li-Ming
"This realm needs me."
Basic Info
Title	Rebellious Wizard
Role	Ranged Assassin
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Diablo
Price	625 / 7,000
Release Date	February 2, 2016
Base Stats
Attack Type	Ranged
Health	1270
Health Regen	2.6458
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.625
Attack Speed	1.00
Attack Range	5.5
Attack Damage	63
Data Page

Li-Ming, the Rebellious Wizard, is a Ranged Assassin hero from the Diablo franchise. It’s a generally agreed upon fact of life among the denizens of Sanctuary that wizards and magical mayhem are never far apart. Although she understands people’s concerns, Li-Ming is entirely unapologetic for the destruction in her wake. She delights in unleashing devastating spells on her foes from afar, then teleporting away to frustrate her enemies’ attempts at striking back. Small minds may fear this kind of power, but Li-Ming wields the arcane forces of the universe with confidence and unmatched skill.

Li-Ming is a burst damage mage who can reset her abilities upon getting a takedown.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to Diablo universe.

Li-Ming was born in Xiansai and brought to the Yshari Sanctum by the sorceress Isendra at the age of seven. Archmage Valthek decided to train her personally after he caught her studying forbidden spells. Li-Ming refused to ignore the needs of people around Caldeum, and saved the city of Lut Bahadur from drought by bringing water back. However, the attention of the Mage Clans was focused on Isendra.

Li-Ming discovered Isendra's mangled body shortly after the sorceress was assassinated in the eastern desert. She concluded that Isendra died unnaturally, and confronted Valthek. Even though he tried to stop Li-Ming, she left the Sanctum after besting him in combat. Li-Ming ventured to New Tristram, pursuing a sighting of a fallen star.

Gameplay

Li-Ming is a high burst damage Mage who can reset the cooldowns of her Abilities upon getting a takedown.

Strengths

• Long-range burst and sustained damage
• Strong sieging potential
• Good escape
• Exceptional poking

Weaknesses

• Very fragile, especially to Melee Assassins
• Difficult to play due to all Abilities being skillshots
• Very limited team fight utility beyond raw damage

Abilities

See Data Page for a table of scaled values at key levels.

Critical Mass

Getting a Takedown will refresh the cooldown on all of Li-Ming's Abilities.

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• This includes all Basic, Heroic and Activatable Abilities, unless otherwise noted.

Q

Magic Missiles

20 Mana Cooldown: 3 seconds

Fire three missiles toward an area, each dealing 147 damage to the first enemy hit. These missiles do 50% damage to Structures.

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Type: Spell damage

Scaling: 3.50%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Clamping, Skillshot

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 12.0

Hitbox: 0.5 x 1.6

Missile speed: 13.0

Initial missile spacing: 3.0

Initial delay: 0.1875 seconds

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• Damage reduction against Structures, stacks additively with offensive damage modifiers.

W

Arcane Orb

40 Mana Cooldown: 8 seconds

Fire an orb that powers up as it travels, dealing 135 damage to the first enemy hit. Damage is increased the farther it travels, up to 270 more damage.

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'Type: Spell damage

Scaling: 3.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Clamping, Skillshot, Splash

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 13.5

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius:
- Hitbox (initial): 0.25
- Splash: 3.0

Missile speed: 9.0

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• Upon hit, the Orb explodes dealing area damage.
• Units that are immune to skillshots cannot trigger the explosion, but can be damaged by it.
• Hit detection radius is increased by 0.09 and damage is increased by 16.875 every 0.0625 seconds the orb travels.
• Arcane Orbs damage can increase up to 16 times, causing it to reach its maximum damage after travelling for 1.0 second (9.0 range).

E

Teleport

30 Mana Cooldown: 5 seconds

Teleport a short distance instantly.

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Type: Movement: Teleport

Affects: Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Clamping

Cast time: Instant

Range: 4.0

R

Disintegrate

80 Mana Cooldown: 20 seconds

Channel a powerful beam, dealing 480 damage over 2.6 seconds to enemies while they are in it. The direction of the beam changes with your mouse cursor position.

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Type: Spell damage

Scaling: 5.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target / Cursor tracking

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping, Stationary channel

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Rectangle

Width: 1.0

Height: 16.0

Tickrate: 16.0 per second (x40)

Damage per tick: 12

R

Wave of Force

80 Mana Cooldown: 30 seconds

Knock away all enemies from an area and deal 160 damage.

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Type: Spell damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 5.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Knockback

Cast time: Instant

Range: 8.5

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

Impact delay: 0.25 seconds

Knockback duration: 0.25 seconds

Knockback speed: 18.0

Talents

1

Force Armor

When Magic Missiles damages an enemy Hero, gain 50 Spell Armor against the next enemy Ability, reducing the damage taken by 50%. Can only gain 1 charge per cast, up to 4 charges maximum. Passive: Li Ming's Mana regeneration is increased by 100% while below 35% Mana.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Spell Block, Spell Armor

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• Does not stack with itself or other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Aether Walker

Teleport costs no Mana. If Li-Ming hasn't taken damage in the last 3 seconds, Teleport's cooldown is decreased by 2 seconds. Casting Teleport causes Li-Ming's next cast of Magic Missiles to deal 10% bonus damage.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Does not stack with itself.
• Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Magic Missiles' damage.

Power Hungry

Regeneration Globes restore 100% more Mana and grant 10% Spell Power for 20 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Spell Power

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• Does not stack with itself. Subsequent Globes refresh the duration.
• Spell Power stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage and healing modifiers affecting Li-Ming's Spell damage or healing output.

4

Charged Blast

Basic Attacking a target recently hit by a Magic Missile does an extra 87 damage.

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Type: Spell damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Debuff

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• Damage is dealt in a separate instance of Spell damage.

Triumvirate

If Arcane Orb hits an enemy Hero after traveling at least 50% of its base range, the cooldown is reduced by 5 seconds and 40 Mana is refunded.

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Distance threshold: 6.75

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• Distance threshold is unaffected by the range increase from Arcane Orbit.

Dominance

Takedowns restore 30% of Li Ming's missing Health.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

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Seeker

If three Magic Missiles hit the same target, the third one deals an additional 140 damage.

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Type: Spell damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

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• Damage is dealt in a separate instance of Spell damage.

Zei's Vengeance

Increase Arcane Orb's damage increase for distance traveled by 30%. Additionally, reduce its cooldown by 1 second.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Cooldown reduction is permanent.
• Only affects the distance-based portion of Arcane Orb's damage, effectively increasing Arcane Orb's total damage by up to 20%.
• Stacks multiplicatively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Arcane Orb's damage.

Calamity

Teleport does 300 damage to enemy Heroes near your destination.

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Type: Spell damage

Scaling: 3.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 2.5

10

Disintegrate

Cooldown: 20 seconds
Channel a powerful beam, dealing 480 damage over 2.6 seconds to enemies while they are in it. The direction of the beam changes with your mouse cursor position.

Wave Of Force

Cooldown: 30 seconds
Knock away all enemies from an area and deal 160 damage.

13

Illusionist

If Li-Ming loses more than 20% of her Health at once, Teleport's cooldown is instantly refreshed.
This effect has a 4 second cooldown.
Passive: Increases Teleport's range by 50%.

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Bonus range: 2.0

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• Based on Li-Ming's maximum Health.
• This cooldown is not reset by Critical Mass.

Cannoneer

When Li-Ming uses an Ability, her next Basic Attack's damage is increased by 75% and deals Spell Damage instead of Physical. Stacks up to 3 times.

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Type: Spell damage / Offensive damage modifier

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Attack Modifier

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• Stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Li-Ming's spell damage output.

Glass Cannon

Increase Li-Ming's Spell Power by 20%, but decrease her maximum Health by 15%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Spell Power

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• Spell Power stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage and healing modifiers affecting Li-Ming's Spell damage or healing output.

16

Fireflies

Drastically increases Magic Missiles's speed. Its cooldown is reduced by 1 second and its Mana cost is reduced by 5.

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Missile speed: 20.0

Mirrorball

Magic Missiles fires an additional 2 missiles, but its Mana cost is increased by 5.

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Type: Spell damage

Scaling: 3.50%

Affects: Enemies

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• Additional missiles from Mirrorball benefit from all talents affecting Magic Missiles.

Arcane Orbit

Arcane Orb travels 25% farther, increasing its maximum distance damage bonus from 270 to 371.

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Bonus range: 3.375

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• Raises the cut-off point of the damage increase by 6 ticks. The distance scaling rate remains the same, causing only long range Arcane Orbs to be affected.

Diamond Skin

Teleport grants a Shield equal to 25% of Li-Ming's maximum Health for 4 seconds.

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Type: Shield

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

20

Temporal Flux

Disintegrate gradually Slows enemies caught in its beam, to a maximum of 60%.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Slow

Slowing rate: 1.5% per tick

Slow duration: 0.1875 seconds

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• Stacks additively with itself, but not with other Slow effects.

Repulsion

Increases Wave of Force's knockback distance by 150% and increases its cast range by 100%.

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Bonus cast range: 8.5

Bonus knockback duration: 0.25 seconds

Bonus knockback speed: 8.0

Tal Rasha's Elements

Casting Abilities increases the damage of the next ability by 5%, up to a maximum of 20%. This bonus is reset when the same ability is used within a chain.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

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• Damage bonus is added and validated after the ability has been cast. In case the bonus is reset, the Ability that reset the bonus still benefits from the damage increase.
• Using any Ability twice within a 4 Ability chain resets the bonus.
• Upon reaching 20% bonus, the next Ability used resets the bonus.
• Stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect the cast ability's damage.

Archon: Pure Power

Cooldown: 10 / 1.0 seconds

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Active: Activate to enter Archon form, allowing Li-Ming to repeatedly use Disintegrate, but be unable to cast other Abilities.

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Type: Transformation

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Cast time: Instant

Transformation time: 0.75 seconds

Disintegrate toggle cooldown: 1.0 seconds

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• Archon form lasts indefinitely once cast and can be disabled by reactivating the Ability. Cooldown starts upon leaving Archon form.
• Entering Archon form replaces Wave of Force and Disintegrate with Archon's Disintegrate, which has no Mana cost and can be freely toggled on and off.
• Archon's Disintegrate has a separate cooldown from normal Disintegrate.
• Li-Ming is unable to mount while in Archon form.

Skins

Li-Ming Skins
Rebellious Wizard
Backstory: The derogatory moniker "wizard" is often given to mages with rebellious attitudes or an obsession with power. Li-Ming displays a little of both and she's hardly ashamed of it. After all, who are they to judge a wielder of limitless arcane magic?
625 / 7,000 Rebellious Wizard	Free Crimson	Free Veradani	120 / 75 Indigo
Archon
Backstory: Once, only wizards who had spent countless hours braving the inferno were able to attain the fabled archon armor. Those who adorned it were both respected and feared. Then came transmog...
120 / 75	120 / 75 Lovely	120 / 75 Shadow	120 / 75 Infernal
Nephalem
Backstory: With the Worldstone's destruction, a new generation of Nephalem arose. They were descended from both angels and demons, yet stronger than both. It was not long before the Nephalem's glory was fully realized.
120 / 75
Star Princess
Backstory: For eons, Earth has been protected by the magical Star Princesses. Together, they stand against the evil Eternal Empire and its Space Lords in the name of love and friendship.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Superheroes vs. Eternal Empire skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Thunder	350 / 400 Magical	350 / 400 Dark
Star Queen
Backstory: All seemed lost as the star princesses fell one after the other. But Li-Ming's refusal to give up hope awakened a new power inside her, transforming her into the legendary Star Queen.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Superheroes vs. Eternal Empire skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Neo	350 / 400 Eternal
Striker
Backstory: Li-Ming is an avid student of magic, but it was her skills on the court that scored her a scholarship at the Yshari Sanctum. As team captain, she intends to lead the Vizjerei Fireflies to victory.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of sports skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Scarlet	350 / 400 Canary	350 / 400 Sapphire	350 / 400 Champion
350 / 400 RCHS
Tal Rasha
Backstory: Few sorcerers are as famed as Tal Rasha, who sacrificed himself to imprison Baal during the Sin War. Those wizards who don his armor do so with the intent to live up to his legend.
160 / 100	160 / 100 Crimson	160 / 100 Cobalt
Templar
Backstory: Li-Ming may be strong-willed, but the will of Templar Li-Ming is stronger.
Features: Themed abilities, altered voice-over.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of other universes merging into StarCraft skins.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 First Ascendant	600 / 1,200 Dark	600 / 1,200 Onyx	600 / 1,200 Void

Li-Ming Event Skins
Lunar
Backstory: To Li-Ming, the Lunar Festival of the Nexus was not so dissimilar from those of her homeland, Xiansai. Donning her favored finery, she joined in celebration with a nostalgic joy.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Jade	350 / 400 Amber	350 / 400 Imperial	350 / 400 Heavenly
350 / 400 Blossom

Portraits

Li-Ming Portraits
Carbot Li-Ming120 / 75	Diablo III Li-Ming75 / 40	Li-Ming Hero	Li-Ming Mastery	Lil' Lunar Li-Ming75 / 40	Night Lord Li-Ming75 / 40	Rockstar Li-Ming75 / 40
Star Princess Li-Ming75 / 40	Stylized Tal Rasha Li-Ming75 / 40	Tal Rasha Li-Ming75 / 40	Templar Li-Ming75 / 40	Toon Lunar Li-Ming75 / 40	Witch Prodigy Li-Ming75 / 40

Sprays

Li-Ming Sprays
Carbot Li-Ming120 / 75	Cartoon Li-Ming75 / 40	Feast-ival Li-Ming120 / 75	Galactic Sorceror Li-Ming75 / 40	Lunar Li-Ming Lantern120 / 75	Paper Li-Ming75 / 40	Psionic Prodigy75 / 40
Star Princess Li-Ming75 / 40

Emojis

Li-Ming Pack 1			Li-Ming Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Li-Ming Happy	:liminghappy: :limhappy:		Li-Ming Angry	:limingangry: :limangry:
	Li-Ming ROFL	:liminglol: :limingrofl: :limlol: :limrofl:		Li-Ming Cool	:limingcool: :limcool:
	Li-Ming Sad	:limingsad: :limsad:		Li-Ming Embarrassed	:limingoops: :limingembarrassed: :limoops: :limembarrassed:
	Li-Ming Silly	:limingsilly: :limsilly:		Li-Ming in Love	:liminglove: :liminginlove: :limlove: :liminlove:
	Li-Ming Speechless	:limingmeh: :limingspeechless: :limmeh: :limspeechless:		Li-Ming Surprised	:limingwow: :limingsurprised: :limwow: :limsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Li-Ming/Quotes

Trivia

• Li-Ming represents the wizard class from Diablo III (May 2012).
• Li-Ming's default skin is the Balor set from Diablo III (May 2012).
• Li-Ming is the protagonist of the short story "Firefly".
• Li-Ming is voiced by Grey DeLisle.
• One of Li-Ming's quotes references the running joke about Darkness.

Gallery

General

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  Li-Ming's artwork

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  Li-Ming artwork

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  Li-Ming home screen

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  Neo Star Queen

Abilities

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  Q: Magic Missiles

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  W: Arcane Orb

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  E: Teleport

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  R1: Disintegrate

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  R2: Wave of Force

Gameplay

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  Li-Ming attacks Murky

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  Li-Ming fights The Lost Vikings

External links

• Li-Ming Hero Week
• Li-Ming - Heroes of the Storm
• Li-Ming - Diablo Wiki
• Li-Ming Build Guide on Icy Veins
• Li-Ming Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Li-Ming Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm